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I've through together a ruby script as test for a monitoring app for a
few
Win32 user processes I'm stuck with supporting. I've gotten most of the
management setup, however, I'm stuck trying to figure out how to run the
script as a service. I tried creating the service manually with
sc.exe<http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=251192>,
with both the script and a call to c:\ruby\bin\rubyw.exe with the
filename
as the argument, but I receive a time-out. I spent some time with
google,
but perhaps I'm missing something silly?
Does win32-service do something special when creating a service that I'm
missing with the manual service creation? I suppose I could always run
it
via the startup folder, but I thought this would be cleaner.
Thanks,
William Ramirez

On 2/17/06, William Ramirez <mercan01@gmail.com> wrote:
> missing with the manual service creation? I suppose I could always run it> via the startup folder, but I thought this would be cleaner.>> Thanks,>> William Ramirez>>
You did "install" the service using win3-service right? (just asking)
pth

On 2/17/06, Patrick Hurley <phurley@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> You did "install" the service using win3-service right? (just asking)>>
Nope, I used the command sc.exe, which allows you to create services. I
didn't see the need to create an 'installer' just for testing purposes.
I
browsed the win32-service documentation and it didn't appear to do
anything
special with regards to service creation.

On 2/17/06, William Ramirez <mercan01@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/17/06, Patrick Hurley <phurley@gmail.com> wrote:> > You did "install" the service using win3-service right? (just asking)> Nope, I used the command sc.exe, which allows you to create services. I> didn't see the need to create an 'installer' just for testing purposes. I> browsed the win32-service documentation and it didn't appear to do anything> special with regards to service creation.
It's not a traditional installer; it's registering the service. Look
at what Ruwiki does for service management in its command-line.
-austin

>Does win32-service do something special when creating a service that I'm>missing with the manual service creation? I suppose I could always run it>via the startup folder, but I thought this would be cleaner.
Check out the instiki instructions for running a ruby script as a
windows service:
http://instiki.org/show/Running+as+a+Windows+Service
Regards,
Peter

On Feb 18, 2006, at 8:25, Peter Krantz wrote:
>> Does win32-service do something special when creating a service>> that I'm>> missing with the manual service creation? I suppose I could always>> run it>> via the startup folder, but I thought this would be cleaner.>> Check out the instiki instructions for running a ruby script as a> windows service:>> http://instiki.org/show/Running+as+a+Windows+Service
Hey I know practically nothing about Windows. Could I follow those
instructions to have WEBrick always running an easily deploy a simple
management Rails tool for internal usage?
-- fxn

On 2006-02-18, Patrick Hurley <phurley@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/17/06, William Ramirez <mercan01@gmail.com> wrote:>> ... I'm stuck trying to figure out how to run the script as a>> service.
I did this at $WORK a while back (with ActivePerl rather than Ruby).
I used SRVANY.EXE (from the Windows NT Resource Kit), which is a
wrapper that turns any executable into a Windows service. You
register SRVANY.EXE as the service, then create Registry keys to tell
it which program to run (RUBY.EXE, I guess), what arguments to give it
(-w my_script.rb) and what directory to run it in. I'm not at work
right now so I'm short of details but IIRC it was quite
straightforward. Googling for SRVANY.EXE turns up
<URL:http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/pr...,
"srvany.exe is an additional Microsoft Windows application which
allows an executable to be ran as a service.". Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Jeremy Henty

Hi Xavier,
> Hey I know practically nothing about Windows. Could I follow those> instructions to have WEBrick always running an easily deploy a simple> management Rails tool for internal usage?
Few comments:
- It's very much possible to do so. I personally prefer cygwin's
cygrunsrv, but the above instructions work flawlessly.
- The service created is not a "real" win32 service - it doesn't
respond to TERM signals and the only way to stop it is to either kill
the process or build a stop command in your app.
- If you're on windows, why not go with InstantRails?
(http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/)
Cheers,
Assaph

On Feb 18, 2006, at 13:57, Assaph Mehr wrote:
> respond to TERM signals and the only way to stop it is to either kill> the process or build a stop command in your app.
Nice. I'll consider this solution.
> - If you're on windows, why not go with InstantRails?> (http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/)
Because my application uses SQLite. Porting the database is an
option, it's just a handful of tables, but I am exploring available
solutions for ease (read as trivial as possible) deployment.
-- fxn

> Because my application uses SQLite. Porting the database is an> option, it's just a handful of tables, but I am exploring available> solutions for ease (read as trivial as possible) deployment.
I developed something in house that run on WEBrick and SQLite (only
one table :). When it came time to share with others, it was just
easier to use InstantRails with it's preconfigured everything, then
put up ruby, the web server etc independently. YMMV.
Assaph